Welcoming our new Artist in Residence, Sun Forest!
We’re so excited to welcome our first artist in residence of 2026 to the studio! Artist Sun Forest is joining us from February 6 – March 21. During her residency, Sun will be crafting sculptural cloaks from biomaterials, and using performance to activate them. Keep an eye out for updates on what she’s up to, and some workshop opportunities with her!
I Saw New Worlds Beneath the Water, New Skies and A New Day expands as sculpture, organism, and somatic gesture to recast the traditional Korean ssukaechima into speculative cloaking devices. Crafted from living biomaterials (i.e., mycelial lattices, algae cultures), matter that metabolizes, blooms, and decays, the sculptures practice a kind of camouflage: as shelter, as refusal, as a breathing strategy of survival. “Activated through somatic performance, the work proposes that the body remembers resistance transgenerationally, through breath, gesture, withdrawal, and care, carrying forward the histories of those who remained ungovernable not through spectacle but through subtle evasion. In this framework, symbiosis between the changing composition of the biomaterial cloaks create more-than-human kinships that propose futures outside extractive relations. The documented performances activating the cloaking devices in public spaces attempt to resist hypervisibility not in order to conquer, but to heal, to rest, to remain multiple and irreducible.
Sun Forest is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how racial violence, social inequity, and environmental crisis imprint themselves on bodies, materials, and landscapes. Moving across sculpture, performance, video, and installation, she investigates these conditions while imagining forms of resilience, care, and speculative reorientation. Her recent residencies include the European Ceramic Work Centre, Arctic Circle, Belkin Gallery with the Quantum Matter Institute, Deer Lake, Diasporic Futurisms, and BANFF. She is a recipient of support from the BC Arts Council; Canada Council for the Arts, Centrum Foundations, and Griffin Art Projects. Sun is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University.